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We were out of white bread again and with Lucy in the middle of her rye bread experiments, it didn’t look like we would get a chance to make one either.  But we built the rye levain for her and at the same time a whole wheat one for this bread and a YW one for some possible pizza - possibly tomorrow or Sunday.  Saturday is out since we are off to Tucson to finish moving my daughter back home.

It is hard to keep up on the forum lately. So many innovative techniques being used . I decided to combine several things that I have wanted to try . So far noone else has done this particular set of combinations so hopefully it will be informative. First I made a sourdough focaccia. I used my kefir whey for all of the liquid. I added some sun dried tomatoes and topped with dried orgeano and New Orleans olive salad from our favorite place Central Grocery. It was wonderful. The crust top and bottom was crisp and browned...oweing in part to the black steel pan .

Sourdough honey whole wheat multi-grain ciabatta rolls and boule

May 11, 2013

After last week's San Francisco-style Sourdough with 30% whole wheat, I considered a number of modifications of the formula. The leading candidates were 1) increasing the whole wheat to 50%; 2) adding some honey or other sweetener; 3) adding a mixed grain/seed soaker. In the background but not very far back was my wife's request that I make her some soft sandwich rolls that were low profile. When she gets a rather spherical roll, she cuts a horizontal section out of the middle.

My apprentice, Lucy, has been on a quest to make some rye breads that really pack the flavor of what she thinks a rye should taste like.  Her last bake really came out well with a 40% rye and I thought for sure she wouldn’t try to improve on it any time soon but, she fooled me again.

baked another SD pineapple enzyme(home made) Kamut, pumpkin sourdough bread with maple roasted bacon and celery ..

little changes to the first one i did.http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/33434/sprouted-spelt-pumpkin-sourdough-maple-roasted-bacon-bits

no sprouted spelt .. substitute with Kamut flour and a little whole wheat. added 2 tablespoon of pineapple enzyme which my friend gave me (matured 30days) just experimenting.

Levain :

20 gr  Rye Starter

100 gr H20

100 gr flour ( 50% Wheat Flour tipo 2 + 50 % Whole Wheat flour )

Left at room temperature for 12 H  ( 23 ° )

Final Dough :

200 gr White Rye Flour

200 gr Wheta Flour tipo 2

500 gr Whole Wheat  flour

650 + 50 gr H20

18 gr Salt

5 gr Malt

Method

-         when levain is ready

My sourdough loaf came out really nice today.

I used a firmer starter than I usually do. I believe it was 30 grams starter, 50 grams water, 50 grams rye flour that I left out overnight.  In the AM I added 500 grams bread flour, 370 grams water, and 10 grams salt.  Folded 3-4 times over 3-4 hours, shaped it, baked it in a pot for 45 minutes.

I made baguettes with no wheat and it was good. Like, really good. Better than I could ever have hoped. I know that some of the processes I follow aren't ideal when it comes to traditional bread-making, but without gluten it seems that everything changes.

There were so many wonderful looking breads with lots of stuff in them posted in the last week that I decided I wanted to play too.

Lazy Sundays call for fresh home made bagels – I couldn’t decide which ones to make “Jalapeno and Cheddar” or “Cinnamon and Raisin” – so I made both :)

A link to full recipe on my blog here